Unifying Repbase and Dfam: a new open foundation for transposable element research.

Publication Title

Mob DNA

Authors

• Kenji K Kojima
• Arian F A Smit, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, 98109, WA, USA.
• Weidong Bao
• Oleksiy Kohany
• Noriko F Kojima
• Timothy Jurka
• Robert Hubley, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, 98109, WA, USA.Follow
• Travis J Wheeler

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-25-2026

Keywords

ntegration; Repository; Transposable elements.; washington; isb

Abstract

Repbase and Dfam, the two foundational resources for transposable element annotation, are being unified into a single, fully open access framework, with Repbase released under CC-0 and its core curation team joining the Dfam project.

Specialty/Research Institute

Institute for Systems Biology

DOI

10.1186/s13100-026-00409-9